What can a single year of study do for a designer at a moment when the discipline is being redrawn? In this film, Nathan Hume, Chair of Graduate and Postgraduate Programs at SCI-Arc, introduces the school's four postgraduate programs and makes the case for why this is precisely the moment to change direction, in how you think, what tools you design with, or where you aim your career.

The M.S. in Design Theory and Pedagogy, coordinated by Marcelyn Gow, is built for students drawn to teaching, research, and the thinking and writing that surround architecture, those who want to shape the discourse as much as the buildings.

The M.S. in Synthetic Landscapes, coordinated by Florencia Pita, reframes landscape beyond its traditional boundaries, moving across scales from the intimate and domestic to the desert and the urban fabric of Los Angeles itself.

The M.S. in Architectural Intelligence, coordinated by M. Casey Rehm, focuses on robotics and AI. Students build serious technical fluency, but the program is equally concerned with what comes next: launching a business, building an app, or leading teams across a widening range of fields.
The M.S. in Fiction and Entertainment, coordinated by Liam Young, engages filmmaking and video game design, working in the space between entertainment and serious vehicles for communicating the urgencies of our moment.

Hume describes the postgraduate programs as a home for the curious: architects seeking a specialty, and others looking for a focused, self-directed year of study. What unites them is a distinctly SCI-Arc disposition, spatial and analytical thinking paired with a fearlessness around technology, and a conviction that the future of the discipline will look like something different altogether.

For anyone considering postgraduate study that could evolve their career, this is a film worth watching.

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